Yuck tooth found in take out chicken

[runwad]

How gross is that? We got take out chicken yesterday. My DD16 ate some of the left over last night after we all went to bed. When I got up this morning she had a tooth in a baggie and wrote on it, I FOUND THIS TOOTH IN MY CHICKEN. I asked her about it and she said it was under the breading. My dh and I are trying to decide if it could be part of the chicken like a beak? or something else although it looks like a tooth and this is gross, you can see the dried blood where it looks like it would be attached to your gum. I was going to go up and talk to the manager but my friend said not to do that yet and maybe I need to contact the FDA or someone first. Does anyone have any advice for me on what I should do? or what the proper protocol would be in this situation? Thanks

 

[luvmy3]

How gross is that? We got take out chicken yesterday. My DD16 ate some of the left over last night after we all went to bed. When I got up this morning she had a tooth in a baggie and wrote on it, I FOUND THIS TOOTH IN MY CHICKEN. I asked her about it and she said it was under the breading. My dh and I are trying to decide if it could be part of the chicken like a beak? or something else although it looks like a tooth and this is gross, you can see the dried blood where it looks like it would be attached to your gum. I was going to go up and talk to the manager but my friend said not to do that yet and maybe I need to contact the FDIC of someone first. Does anyone have any advice for me on what I should do? or what the proper protocol would be in this situation? Thanks

I don't think the FDIC is going to help you with that issue.

 

[Bob NC]

I don't think the FDIC is going to help you with that issue.

Unfortunately, this post didn't help much either.

OP, the FDIC is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. It's involved in banking, not food.

 

[runwad]

Dah, meant Food & Drug Administration FDA,ha.

 

[Dismom55]

perhaps they meant U S Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

 

[Bob NC]

I don't know what you should do.

If it were me, I'd probably spend 2 minutes convincing myself it was a piece of bone and then forget about it.

 

[gillenkl]

I don't know what you should do.

If it were me, I'd probably spend 2 minutes convincing myself it was a piece of bone and then forget about it.

Agreed - you've ve already eaten the food - cross that restaurant off your list of favorites.

 

[disneychic2]

I would take it back just to let them know.

 

[happygirl]

I think you are skpping several steps. Contact the manager first and go from there. Why would you contact the FDA

 

[ceecee]

I think you are skpping several steps. Contact the manager first and go from there. Why would you contact the FDA

I doubt the Food/Drug admin. would do anything. Foreign objects are found a lot in food. We have had patients break a tooth on a tack found in a pre made hamburger patty, a pebble in a salad, a piece of metal in premade cookie dough...I found a fly in a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna (they gave me a coupon for a free can, I switched to StarKist). A tooth on the other hand is gross!!! I would take it in and ask the manager and hope it's a piece of bone. One time I thought I had a spider in my stir fry, when I asked about it, the manager said it was the top part of an onionI still couldn't eat it though!

 

[horseshowmom]

I don't know what you should do.

If it were me, I'd probably spend 2 minutes convincing myself it was a piece of bone and then forget about it.

I recently had a Coke at work and was really distracted (super busy), and it had been setting there for several minutes without being moved. I then took a drink of it and felt something odd when my teeth came together - almost like wadded up thread or something. It was a fly....

I did my best to keep thinking about the thread, but it didn't work too well.

From now on the top goes back on the Coke every time I put it down.

I doubt the Food/Drug admin. would do anything. Foreign objects are found a lot in food. We have had patients break a tooth on a tack found in a pre made hamburger patty, a pebble in a salad, a piece of metal in premade cookie dough...I found a fly in a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna (they gave me a coupon for a free can, I switched to StarKist). A tooth on the other hand is gross!!! I would take it in and ask the manager and hope it's a piece of bone. One time I thought I had a spider in my stir fry, when I asked about it, the manager said it was the top part of an onionI still couldn't eat it though!

Now you don't really think he would have agreed it was a spider, do you? J/K


OP, talk to the manager or even the corporate office, but the FDA won't particularly care. It doesn't really fall under the umbrella of responsibilities.

 

[luvmy3]

Unfortunately, this post didn't help much either.

Sure it did.

 

[Happiest mommy]

 

[disneybound31]

Once we got a takeout pizza from Dominos...(like 10 years ago)- I love mushrooms so my half had them...as soon as I opened the box I knew I was looking at a huge cooked spider on my half. DH tried to tell me it was just a gross looking mushroom since he thinks all mushrooms are gross. I made him take it back and they agreed it was a giant spider that must have fallen onto it before it went into the oven and gave us a fresh pizza- I only started eating Dominos recently and maybe 2 slices at that- even though I know it was a fluke happening.

 

[LockShockBarrel]

I sincerely doubt it was a tooth. If I had to guess, it was probably bone or connective tissue of some kind. I have to agree with others though, nothing will come of it unless it causes an illness or is a consistent problem. Call the manager and let them know but I wouldn't expect much out of it.

 

[FergieTCat]

If it's a chain restaurant, I'd write to corporate headquarters and enclose the tooth.

If it's a local business, I'd let them know.

You could also contact the Board of Health in your city and report it.

You're lucky you didn't break your own tooth biting into it.

 

[kellyg403]

Agreed, call the manager. If you don't want to do that you can certainly call your local health department and ask what to do.

I would definitely not be able to eat at this particular establishment ever again. I am a bit squeamish when it comes to odd things in my food. I don't eat Chinese food because I can't get past the one hair I found in my food at one of them. I don't eat Wendy's because once I got a chicken sandwich that was totally raw on the inside, frozen raw..the outside looked cooked and DQ, I had a burger incident there I can't repeat. I have a weak stomach, just thinking about eating at any of those places again makes me Not logical I know, as one bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch but I can't convince myself otherwise

Kelly

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

This was almost certainly not a tooth. More likely a piece of cartilage or similar material. I don't see the big deal. If it really bothers you, don't eat food from this restaurant again. I don't see how the Board of Health would be involved. If it really were a tooth, it would be obvious.

 

[andrews_dad]

about 1996 i found a full unprocessed chicken brain in a piece of chicken from hardees. whole thing. have not eaten at one since.

 

[NYCDiane]

It wasn't a tooth... it was more likely a piece of bone with cartilage still attached. This happened to me with some wingettes I purchased at the grocery store. I was cleaning them prior to cooking and I saw the same thing... looked like a tooth connected to the wingette, hanging off by cartilage. I knew it wasn't a tooth but it grossed me out just looking at it.

I haven't eaten a wingette since (and this was over a year and a half ago!!)